topile (Osu13r)
This painting from the Codex Osuna, folio 13 recto (or Image 28), shows a Nahua man that is identified as a topile (a constable, literally the possessor of a topilli, staff of office). We are including this example of iconography to provide for comparisons with hieroglyphs. The man is standing in a ¾ view. He wears white, possibly cotton clothing, with a cape tied on the shoulder covering most of the rest of his clothing. He carries a staff of office.
Stephanie Wood
The verb in the Nahuatl text, tocatinemi, suggests that he is following around an older man. In this case, he is following the interpreter (nahuatlato) who worked with Doctor Vasco de Puga. Perhaps he was assisting with the interpretation work.
Stephanie Wood
1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
topiles, alguaciles, oficios, gobierno, gobernar, interpretación, traducción, traducir, interpretar
topile, constable, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/topile
el topile
Stephanie Wood
Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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